Movable stationery

Volume 4

Number 1

March

1996

Frankfurt Book Fair 1995

Theo Gielen
The Netherlands

Now on the Web

Ann Montanaro
East Brunswick. N.J.

The marvelous Frankfurt Book Fair was held from
October 11 to 16, 1995 with hundreds of thousands of
books on display, some already in print and some yet to
be published. Among them the recently published
movables and pop-up books and, more interesting, the
projects the packagers and publishing houses are
preparing for 1996 and 1997. Although this year's fan-
was called a quiet one, we nevertheless spotted several
hundred more or less interesting new titles in our
common field of interest. Not as many as in 1 994, but not
less collectable!

We have chosen to describe a selection of the
highlights and to omit the simple ones, being assured
Mrs. Montanaro will list all in the future issues of
Movable Stationery.

The first stop was Intervisual Books (IBI) from Santa
Monica. California. For twenty years (IBI) has been "the
biggest company in the movable book market." Waldo
Hunt Chairman of the Board of IBI, the charming grand
old man of the modern pop-up book, showed me the
promising projects being offered to publishers. Above all
others there was the new Pienkowski masterpiece:
Botticelli 's bed and breakfast, a five-section carousel
format book with over one hundred masterpieces from art
history placed in the most amazing and amusing places:
Botticelli's Venus in the shower, Michelangelo's David
brushing his teeth in the bathroom, etc. No less
spectacular will prove to be There are the voyages:
1966-1996. It is a pop-up Star Trek album by Charles
Kurts. showing the history from the original Enterprise to
the U.S.S. Voyager, looking at the outstanding ships and
outposts of Star Fleet, their historic journeys and their
amazing crews, complete with a good hologram on the
cover.

Slizzie and Brian Sanders developed The romantic
garden. On a base page 20 x 30 inches, it has five
bountiful gardens which fold out and pop up in glorious

detail. Continued on page 4

The Movable Book Society is on the World Wide Web
at: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~montanar/

To get to the Web site you need a computer, access to the
Internet, and Web browser software like Netscape or
Mosaic.

In two years the growth and use of the Web has
expanded exponentially and the information now
available ranges from complex technical documentation
to absurd poetry to family reunions and to everything in
between. Sites inform and entertain as well as confound.
Constructing a "location" on the Web is much like pre-
paring advertising copy. The author must determine what
message is to be conveyed, determine how it will look,
encode the content so it will display correctly, and select
related information which will be useful and relevant to
people who access the page.

The Movable Book Society site includes introductory
information about the Society, a membership application
form and a sample cover page from a back issue of
Movable Stationery. Related information changes
routinely, Web sites are dynamic, new sites are contin-
ually being added and existing sites are expanded
Currently linked to the site are online pop-up exhibits at
Rutgers University, the University of Southern
California, and Indiana University; information about the
history of children's literature; profiles of authors and
illustrators, as well as sites by publishers and book
dealers.

If you have access to the Web, visit The Movable
Book Society site. Some of it is still under construction
and all suggestions are welcome.

Thanks to Robert Sabuda for the
new Movable Stationery masthead.

The Movable Book Society

I Movable Stationery is the quarterly publication of The i
; Movable Book Society. Letters and articles from;
i members on relevant subjects are welcome. Advertising
is accepted free of charge from members and is included
when space permits. The annual membership fee for The
Society is $15.00. For more information contact Ann
Montanaro. The Movable Book Society, P.O Box
1 1654. New Brunswick. New Jersey 08906.

Daytime telephone: 908-445-5896
Evening telephone: 908-247-6071
e-mail: montanarofSlrci. rutgers.edu
Fax: 908-846-7928
The deadline for the next issue is June 15.

Book Arts Meeting

Ellen Rubin
Scarsdale. NY.
On Saturday, February 10, 1996. eight seemingly
diverse people met to share what they had in common, a
love of pop-up books. It would have been hard for the
casual observer to tell that most of the attendees had
never met before, so engrossed were they in each others'
conversations. The squeals of delight almost gave the
gathering a reunion atmosphere Who were these people
and how did they come to be together?

I'll start with myself. I have collected pop-up and
eccentric books for many years but recently started to
take a more academic approach When going "online." I.
fortunately, was able to acquire the address "popuplady "
One day I had e-mail with the subject line "I am the pop-
up lady." The mail was from Joan Irvine, a name I
instantly recognized as the author of several how to books
on making pop-ups. We corresponded and I shared with
her the e-mail address of Ann Montanaro. the founder of
The Movable Book Society and author of Pop-up and
movable books: A bibliography. Joan, a collector herself,
lives in Canada and had not heard of the Society and this
venerated newsletter. Next came e-mail from Ed
Hutchins, who had previously only corresponded with
Joan via e-mail, saying that he was calling a meeting of
Joan, Ann. and Robert Sabuda and asked "Would I like
to attend?" Delighted to be in such August company. I
readily accepted and asked if my friend Jerry Hirsch. also
a collector, could attend. We were to meet in the Center
for Book Arts in Manhattan's Noho district.

On that afternoon. Ed warmly greeted Jem and me.
the last to arrive. Ed is a book artist/teacher, producing
varied paper and non-paper creations, mam promoting
the theme of world peace and tolerance. Robert Sabuda.
who I had first met at the Metropolitan Children's Book
Seminar, is known to many as a very popular illustrator
and paper engineer. After seeing Robert's work. Ed had
tracked him down but had never met him. Joan and Ann
were joined by Mimi Schaer. an illustrator and graphics
artist, and Susan Share, an artist and a teacher at the
Cooper-Hewitt. Only Ed knew who was to attend, and no
one really knew if there was an agenda We all just
showed up.

The artists immediately exploded into a spontaneous
exhibition of "Show and Tell " They were spurred on by
our luiinhibited squeals of "Oohs," " Ahs," and "Oh my
gods." Such was the intensity of our delight, we were
asked to quiet down because a class was going on m the
adjacent workshop. Ed demonstrated his "The shape of
things" and shared with us how he made several pages
appear as if they had no cut-outs in the paper at all
Robert was relieved to learn the secret without resorting
to taking the piece apart, (his normal modus operandi).
No doubt he will incorporate this technique into the paper
engineering course he is preparing to give at The Pratt
Institute.

While we passed around Joan's new book on holiday
pop-ups and congratulated her on her books now being
printed in Japan, Susan assembled her pieces and put
them on! All agreed Susan's art was the most dynamic.
She explained to us while putting a pop-up on her head
or back, that a full musical/dance number goes along with
the paper pop-ups. Susan alternately looked like the
Statue of Libeity', a Chinese dragon, or a stegosaurus. We
were mesmerized and utterly delighted. Also, fortunately
for us, Mimi was seeing a client after our meeting, and
had her portfolio. She has done many pop-ups as
promotional pieces. Since these items were not mass
produced, it was privilege to have a chance to see them
at all.

Throughout the two hours we spent together. Robert
kept lamenting not having brought his camera. I was even
more upset because I had almost brought mine but felt it
would be presumptuous to take photos of people I don't
even know. I could not have predicted how fast we would
become comrades, tied by the mutual awe of the art
work, and the love of the possibilities of paper art. pop-
ups. and the messages they can convey. We agreed to
meet again... the artists, the authors, and the
collectors... without an agenda

Member Profile

Tom Walker
Vancouver. British Columbia

I have been collecting pop-up books and making pop-
up s for 12 years - I made my first pop-up before I
acquired my first book! In 1990. 1 took a book-making
course taught by Nick Bantock and Celia King. I have
also given workshops on making pop-ups.

One of the mock-ups I did in Nick and Celia's course
I called "Pop-upology." It reflects my belief that pop-up
books hold a very special relation to our mental
functioning Freud talks about the game of "Fort and Da"
(or peek-a-boo) as marking the point in infants' mental
development where they begin to notice the permanence
of objects and to thus make a game out of then-
disappearance and reappearance. To my mind, this
makes peek-a-book an immensely important
philosophical concept and pop-ups the ideal apparatus
for investigating this concept.

My pop-ups combine photo-montage and paper
engineering. I have done hundreds of single photo-
montage pop-ups and two. complete handmade books.
One is a panorama style piece, after the style of Lothar
Meggendorfer's International circus and was submitted
as part of a (successful) proposal for a program of
graduate studies in Education. My "magnum opus,"
however, is a six page photo-montage jitterbug pop-up
using photocopies from a 1940s Life magazine spread by
GjonMili.

My most cherished commercial pop-up books are a
reproduction of the International circus, The royal family
pop-up book, and The wheels on the bus. I also have
several pop-up advertisements and wish I had more. My
copy of The wheels on the bus is in "very toddled"
condition, since it is the favorite of my 18 month old.
Reuben. Strangely enough, I am quite fond of wear and
tear on a pop-up, provided it is not the result of wilful
destruction or plain carelessness.

Recently. I designed a pop-up greeting card to
advertise my Internet publishing service, knoWWare
Communications. The card is 5 V* by 7 Vi inches and
contain a stepped series of eight. V* inch strips, ranging
from 1 inch high on the ends to 2 14 inches high in the
middle. I would be happy to trade copies of my ad for
pop-up advertisements that other Movable Book Society
members have made.

Collecting Children's Books

Dan Stern uses simple, straightforward prose in his
63-page book The family guide to collecting children 's
books: Investing in the future while enjoying books of
today. It is a very basic guide on how to start, develop
and preserve a collection of children's books, mostly by
buying modem books as they are published. From
developing a focus for your collection and determining
first editions, to getting your books signed and protecting
their fragile dust jackets, this book is a useful guide.

The $12.95 large, softcover book is published by DMS
Publishers, P.O. Box 1972 Santa Monica, CA. 90406.
ISBN: 0-9623549-1-0.

Making Pop-ups

If you are interested in learning to make pop-ups there
are several locations where courses are being offered.

Susan Joy Share is teaching "Pop-up books in the
classroom" at the National Design Museum, 2 East 91st
Street, New York City, on Saturday, March 23. On
Friday or Saturday, May 10 or 11 she will teach "Pop-up
books" at the same location. Each course is from 10 a.m.
until 3 p.m. and there is a nominal charge. For more
information contact the museum at 212-860-6321.

"Pop-ups, pop-ups, pop-ups!" is being taught by
Barbara Lazarus Metz at the Columbia College Chicago
Center for Book and Paper Arts. The course will be held
from April 16-May 7 on Tuesdays from 6-9. The class is
limited to 10 people and there is a charge of $145. To
register call 312-431-8612.

Carol Barton's course "Pop-up structures" is available
at the Center for Book Arts, 626 Broadway. 5th Floor.
New York. It will be held on March 23 and 24 from 10
am. until 4 p.m. and costs $215. Call 212-460-9768 for
additional information.

Questions and Answers

Q. Are you attending the Bologna Children's Book
Fair? If so, please be sure to stop by my booth and say
hello. I would very much like to meet other collectors and
people interested in pop-up books.

Missiroli Massimo

Forli, Itarv

Q. I rarely see an out-of-print that I must have, but
recently I was shown a copy of Tonue de Paola's
Giorgios village (1982. Putnam) which I would love to
locate. Does anyone have a cop) I can purchase?
Carol Barton
6005 Yale Ave.
Glen Echo. Md 20812

Q. I am interested in making some new friends overseas
and would love to correspond with people who have
similar interests. I am 26 years old and I am studing at
Art School. I belong to a paper and book group held at
the University.

Leonie Oakes
100 Bmalong Rd.
Mornington 70 1 8
TasmaniaAustralia

Q. Would any member of the Society' have any
information about either of these two books I have, such
as the publishing history or whether they were part of a
series.

A Snow-iVhite and the seven dwarfs. Moveable Picture
Book by Hilde Langen. With verses by Martha
Strachwitz. Translated by Bert}' Van Vhet. Publishers:
"Zu den Sieben Zwergen," Dornach near Basel,
Switzerland. Copyright 1947. Lithographed and printed
by Art Institute Orell Fussli AG. Zurich. (This book has
strong cardboard type printed white cover with gold tape
binding. Each pages is taped and glued together. The tabs
are strong cardboard type and the movement is by coiled
metal rivet - much like Meggendorfer books. Usually one
tab creates one movement. One fold out at end of book.)

Little Red Riding Hood. Movable Picture Book by Hilde
Langen. Verses by Martha Strachwitz. Translated by
Barbara Betteridge. Publishers "Zu den Sieben
Zwergen," Dornach near Basel, Switzerland. Copyright
1960. Reproduced and printed by Wasermann SA.
Basle. (This book like the above. Both books are in
verse. This book has one page where one tab creates four
different movements. There is also a wheel movement at
the end of the book on a foldout.)

These are exquisite books, obviously all hand
assembled. Any information would be most welcome.
Irene Brown
6521 Crown Lane
Zionsville. Pa. 18092-2326

Q. In the December issue of Movable Stationery the
1995 winners of the 7th Annual 3 -Dimensional Awards
competition were listed. I would like to know who the
award winners were for the previous 6 years. It is
possible to publish the previous winners?

Irene Brown

Q. I recently purchased a copy of The Bremen Town
musicians. It is #3 of the Pocket Pop-ups series
published by The Golden Acorn Publishing Co Ltd.
Stafford UK. in 1979. 1 would like to know the other
titles in this series. Please let me know if you can identify
any other title.

Ann Montanaro

A. There are six titles in the Pocket Pop-up Series and
they were issued in a special slipcase. The titles are:

1. Jack and the beanstalk. ISBN 0-89346-147-4.

2. Treasure Island. ISBN 0-89346-143-1.

3. The Bremen town musicians. 0-89346-148-2.

4. The ugly duckling. ISBN 0-89346- 144-x.

5. Puss-in-boots. ISBN 0-89346-146-6.

6. Thumbelina. ISBN 0-89346-145-8.

They all show a 1979 copyright from Sanwa Jitsugyo
Co., Japan. 1980 first English edition by Heian
International, Inc. All have a similar format of 8 pop-ups.

Dennis Frahmann
Los Angeles, CA.

The Movable Book

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Conference

April 18-20, 1996

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East Brunswick, New Jersey

Papers, Presentations, Workshops,

Books for sale and to swap,

Exhibits and more!

Contact Ann Montanaro

for registration information.

ERT SABUDA

1 m - Awful

2 ■& - POOR

3 -fr - OK

4 "w" - Good

5 'w' - Superb

^A^ Action Robots. By Tim Reeve 111: Gavin
\jfj< MacLeod. Paper Eng: David Hawcock. Dial
m^m Books. 0-8037-1843-8. $16.95 US.
20x28cm. 7 spreads, signature sewn. 4 pops, 5 tab
mechs. Art: Realistic airbrush. Plot: History, types
and purposes of robots Art and design standard fare,
but the engineering which uses string creates some
impressive movements. Paper Eng: Complex.

Creepy Crawly Creatures. By Ted and

Linny Levin. Ill: Warren Cutler. Paper Eng:
Rick Morrison. Nat'l Geographic Society.
0-7922-2975-4. $21.95 US for NGS members,
$27.50 for non-members. Sold only as a pair with
Undersea Treasures (see below). NGS Tel. 1-800-
647-5463. 22x23cm. 5 spreads, accordion bound. 5
pops, 10 tab/flap mechs, 1 detachable moth. Art:
realistic watercolor. Plot: Title says it all. Pops are
intricate, but art is weak. Paper Eng: Complex.

^A^ The Earth Pack -Tornados, Earthquakes,
AJJLjV Volcanos - Nature's Forces in Three-
^Sl^" dimensions. By Ron Fisher. Ill: Paul
Crompton. Paper Eng: Ron van der Meer & Mark
Hiner. The Nat'l Geographic Society. 0-7922-2957-6.
$40 US, $56 Can. 28x28cm. 8 spreads (some with
half pages that pull-out from sides), signature sewn.
1 1 pops, 9 tab mechs, 3 wheels, 1 pair of 3-D glasses
to view the "moving illustrations," 1 detachable
cyclindrical world map, a 40 pg. soft cover glossary,
a 30 minute audio cassette of eyewitness accounts of
natural disasters. Art: Realistic paintings and photos.
Plot: An exhaustive look at Mother Nature's bad
days. Good, but my God is it busy. I needed a nap
when I was done. Paper Eng: Simple to Complex.

My grandmother lived in Gooligulch. By

Graeme Base. Paper Eng: John Baker and
Keith Moseley. Abrams. 0-8109-4288-7.
$19.95 US. 9 spreads, signature sewn. 5 pops, 3 tab
mechs. Art: Alternates between brown pen/ink line
drawings and full-color watercolors. Plot: A grand-
mother's adventures with various animals in
Australia. Based on the 1983 picture book. Not very
exciting. Illustrations and design poor. Paper Eng:
Simple (and rather "ho-hum").

&

Perfect Pop-up - Greeting cards the easy

way. By Tom Nelson. Self-published. No
ISBN. $10.00 US, includes shipping (Minn-

esota residents add $.65 sales tax). Available from
author at 800 Washington Ave. North, Minneapolis.
KIN 55401, USA. 21x28cm. 32 pgs, plus 4 full-size,
card stock templates. Soft cover. Art: B&W pen/ink
drawings. Plot: A complete how-to guide for making
simple pop-ups. Teaches basic push-up and V-fold
technique using easy to understand language and
illustrations. Templates can be cut and folded to get
you started. A must for
anyone who wants to
make their first pop-up.

Star Wars - The Mos Eisley Cantina
Pop-up Book. By Kevin J. Anderson &
Rebecca Moesta. Ill: Ralph McQuarrie.
Paper Eng: Chuck Murphy & Heather Vuhs. Music:
John Williams. Little Brown. 0-316-53511-7. $19.95
US, $26.95 Can. 21x32cm. 8 spreads, signa- ture
sewn. 1 pop, 1 musical chip, 3 red lights. Art:
Realistic paintings. Plot: The famous cantina from
the film Star Wars and stories about it's patrons.
Informative, but rarely does one pop with three lights
make a great movable book. Paper Eng: Simple.

UNDERSEA

Undersea Treasures.

By Emory Kristof 111:
Peter Fiore. Paper Eng:
Tor Lokvig. National
Geographic Society.
0-7922- 2977-0. $21.95
for members, $27.50 for
non-members. Sold
only/w Creepy Crawly
Creatures (see above).
22x23cm. 5 spreads, accordion bound. 5 pops, 7
tab/flap mechs, 7 flaps, 1 paper manicure set
(including ear cleaner). Art: Realistic watercolor/
pastel. Plot: Search for treasures from sunken
vessels. Informative without being wordy,
nice art & pops. Paper Eng: Complex.

&

Robert Sabuda is a New York City based author,
illustrator and paper engineer.

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Frankfurt Book Fair, continued from page 1

Jean Claverie's Fairy tale theater, uses the same
technique as the Winnie-the-Pooh 's pop-up theater
book, but Claverie's book folds out like a accordion,
showing the five stages at once, one beside the other.
Folding out to large three-dimensional scenes are the
Pop-up Play Sets IBI had on display: On the farm and
The fairytale village, revealing by opening a complete
farmhouse, barn, well and chicken coop in the first, and
four fairytale houses in the second book.

New concepts formed three "Pop-up Book & Mobile
Kits": Mother Goose, Great planes of the century and
Winnie-the-Pooh, offering not only a pop-up book but
also half a dozen pop-ups from the book to hand as
mobiles! They also showed a Pop-up playhouse book,
consisting of a stud} board doll house with solid furniture
to assemble yourself, and a (plastic) puppet family of
father, mother, boy and girl.

Striking projects planned for 1997 were a Carousel
book, a coffee-table book on roundabouts. It has minimal
text and many pictures, including two very intriguing
spreads: one showing how the horses go up and down,
the other having a real part of the roundabout coming up
from the pages complete with all the colors, paintings and
mirrors. It is so lifelike your think you can hear the music
of the barrel organ!

Also for 1997 is an exquisite pop-up masterpiece by
the young newcomer Laslo Batki. Reflections of the Age
of Elegance, a pop-up book with glazy pictures mirroring
the 3-D scenes, designed in eighteenth-century Rococo
style with much pink and many curls, wigs and knee
breeches. A must for any collector.

Mr. Hunt told me he also plans to do a book on the
history of the movable book with real examples of
movables and pop-ups from the past as done by Dean,
Meggendorfer, Nister, Lentz, Giraud and others. We just
hope he will make a wonderful book since there is much
material in the history to examine. Kind of a movable
Haining?

Finally FBI offered the obligatory sequels, like a new
David Carter: Bugs that go bump in the night (with a
pop-up buggy mask to wear!, four new Mick Inkpen
minis, two new Piehkowski Furrytail title, six new mini
pop-up gift books, four new Scarry ones, and lots of new
Disney movables and pop-ups such as the new feature
The hunchback of Notre Dame.

The Intervisual stand really was eyecatching, though a
bastion for the non-trade visitor, with its whole border
filled with many machines constantly turning the pages of
pop-up books!

Accessible by contrast was the stand of the next big
company offering pop-ups: Compass Productions from
Long Beach. California, with master paper engineers
Keith Moseley and Dick Dudley. They are producing
books with high quality illustrations and often very
innovative paper engineering. Maybe the best of all is the
new Moseley/Leonard/Scuomski title: Classic motor-
cycles in three dimensions . To be published by Warner
Press in 1996, it offers the history of motorbikes and
forms the fourth of that superb series of Flight, Sailing
ships, and a Century of motorcars, done in the 1 980's.
Their book The Haggadah of Passover, with pop-up
spreads adapted from a very old manuscript, The Bird's
Head Haggadah (ca. 1 300), held in the Israel Museum is
a marvelous book for children and adults alike. It will be
published in the U.S. by Kid's Books in 1996. Three
books with real paper machines that can be taken out of
the books to play with, Race cars, Bulldozers, and
Muckshifters, will be published next year by Dorling
Kinder sley.

Mr. Moseley appeared to be most proud of having the
first pop-up book for which the well-known British
illustrator Linda Birkinshaw did the illustrations and the
paper engineering. Badger 's island (Baby's First Book
Club, Bristol, USA), and the dummy for her second
pop-up, Badger 's Christmas eve, a yuletide pop-up for
next Christmas.

There were dummies for a nice, new series of religious
pop-ups done in a shadowbox technique. They are an
example of how a simple technique results in a wonderful
pop-up: God loves you (to be published by Thomas
Nelson); a nice, nostalgic On angels wings, (to come
from House of Lloyd, Grandview, Missouri); and Dick
Dudley's Noah 's pop-up ABC. The funny Noah and
sons, a shipbuilders and arkwrights company has nice
paper works by Mr. Moseley.

Nouveante's produced two titles With love and With
friendship, compilations of romantic verse and paper
flowers in an octagonal book with a highly nostalgic look
(Thomas Nelson): and also (published by Abrams)
Gardens of love, perfumed overtures in three
dimensions. All with intricate paper engineering by Keith
Moseley.

->

Compass has produced the work of a new. voung paper
engineer. Ewen Mack. The beautiful book Special homes
for special people, a 3-D book with the homes of early
name inhabitants such as the Inuits, Tlingit, Sioux, Hopi
and Seminole, includes as well an extra - a native crafts
kit.

Also from Compass. The little rabbit who wanted red
wings and a very charming Garden album. The latter has
enchanting dimensional garden scenes, poetry from the
Secret garden and pockets for your own garden pictures,
done in the style of a voluminous Victorian photo album.
To end this selection. Brian Bartel (from the studio of
Mr. Moseley's son) did Dangerous mission, starting with
a pop-up comic page. All together this wonderful
collection of new titles from Compass includes items not
to be missed by any collector.

The honor of producing the first pop-up comic has to
be reserved for another old master of paper engineering
James Roger Diaz of White Heat Ltd. The Star Wars title
Battle of the bounty hunters will be published by Dark
Horse Comics next year. Some other new Star Wars
pop-ups done by White Heat (for Little Brown) were The
Galactic Empire, The Rebel Alliance, and Star Wars
Jabba 's palace, the last one also including some noisy
sound chips. Innovative for its technique will be Winnie 's
moving day. a book that transforms into a peepshow once
an ingenious foldout has been slipped in another one.
Also from White Heat a new title by Lynette Ruschak
One hot day.

Ron van der Meer. of Van der Meer Paper Design,
though very busy as always selling the rights of the
music, art. and math packs to still more countries -
selling already far over a million copies - did finish The
lads art pack, coming from Knopf in 1996. He also did
The Earth pack for National Geographic with a
wonderful presentation of the consequences of an
earthquake - but otherwise a lot of things seen earlier!
Van der Meer additionally did The pick and shop
marketplace (from Random House), resembling The
market day by Bateson and Lelie.

Roger Culbertson. for the first time in Frankfurt with his
own firm Designimation Inc.. had on display his series of
Tell Tale Theaters (six titles already published), the
twelve titles of mini pop-up gift books published by
Running Press, and a brand new 3-D kid: Pop-up guide
to your body and how it works, to be published by
Freeman Scientific America.

Electric Papers from London had a new pop-up in their
series of Animal builders. Deadly creatures. Savage cats
and Nature 's creatures of the dark. John Woodward's
Nature 's little builders, as beautiful and refined in its
paper artwork as the other volumes. Finally ready for
publication are The Earth in three dimensions by Keith
Lye (Dial Books), with a 3-D globe that really spins. The
dragon arid the magic key, a colorful pop-up fairytale by
Bee Willey: and Can dogs fly?, a very funny pop-up
book of transportation puzzles with intricate paper
engineering by Nick Denchfield.

Sadie Fields Productions showed a lot of new
productions to be published from Christmas 1995 and in
the spring 1996. Among the titles that struck us were the
new Ian Dicks and David Hawcock Unwrap the mummy,
with a large mummy to unfold that can be hung on the
wall Some dinosaur titles (still!) including
Tyrannosaurus rex by John Sibbick with a large three-
dimensional model, not easy to unfold but a wonder of
paper engineering; and the pull-out pop-up Dinosaur
bones by Philip Hood.

Following the hype for the Middle ages, Sadie Fields is
producing John Howe's Knights, revealing the
components of a suit of armor and showing a medieval
battlefield with knights on horseback, the myths of King
Arthur, and courtly love. And. they do a nice book by
Tim Reeve, Action robots, showing interactive robots
working in a factory, in space, underwater, etc. A series
of three booklets, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow
White transforms by a simple means into a stand-up
fairytale house complete with a three-dimensional
interior done by Raymond Elson and illustrated by Susan
Rowe.

The multinational Reed Children's Books had on
display another Fairground pop-up done by Claire
Fletcher, a stunning book with pop-ups on every page
reflecting all the color and excitement of the fairground.
And they were still offering the Fairy tale palace, a
marvelous pop-up by the well known couple Maggie
Bateson and Herman Lelie, available last year but now in
a completely reworked dummy. The big and detailed
palace has not yet been issued. They also announced the
first pop-ups by Andre Amstutz, an established illustrator
of children's books. Four titles in the spooky genre are
Halloween express, The mummy's tomb. Dinosaur
danger and Creepy castle.

Wild Honey, the quality imprint of Ottenheimer. had
the first finished copies of the beautiful pop-up

Gutenberg 's gift (Harcourt Brace), coming next year in
a German edition from Schreiber. translated by
Hildegard Krahe. Though some of the titles they
announced last year have not yet been published, as then
publisher Bea Jackson told us. they have some nice new
titles to offer. Galileo 's universe is a pop-up by J. Patrick
Lewis on Galileo's first experiments and his fascinating
discoveries. The night before Christmas is an advent
sticker pop-up book, illustrated by David Wenzel. with a
nice, nostalgic fold-out Christmas tree to decorate with
stickers found behind the 24 windows of the advent
calendar. The pond song pop-up book by Debbie Leland.
has illustrations by Barry Moser. Wild Honey also
announced a series of pop-up books based on the
nostalgic, 1930s Louis Moe illustrations of anthropo-
morphic animals.

Incidentally, Wild Honey was one of the few packagers
to have a catalog of their new publications. Others were
Intervisual (in black and white only). Compass Pro-
ductions, having a very well done sort of fly leaf entitled
"Magical pop-ups that soar...", which did not include
their new projects; and Sadie Fields, for their own
imprint/publishing house Tango Books.

Bellew Publishing (London) continues the success of
The doll's house carousel with other carousels. The
witches ' scary house by Mick Wells and James Herriot 's
Yorkshire village carousel by Jane Reynolds and Paul
Wilgress (St. Martin's Press, New York). They are
wonderful items though "more of the same."

Tom Partridge, who did The castle carousel, presented
some new pop-up panoramas under the series title The
Big Tops. John Howe together with Anne McCaffrey
designed Dragons for Bellew. and Jane Reynolds did
three Little House Carousel Story Books: Arthur s house,
Anna s house, and Sophie s house. Bellew also showed
four very cute mini-carousels: Polly at the beach. Polly 's
palace, Polly goes shopping and Polly on safari,
together called Polly Pocket Mini-Pops.

We had an animated talk with Mr. Christian Legrand.
a paper engineer of French origin who runs his own firm,
ORCH Print Ltd. in Thailand. They did such beautiful
books as Mem wunderbares marchenbuch (Coopenrath
Verlag, Germany) and the series of Caverns, Castles,
Indians and Cowboys published last year by Universal
Sales and Marketing, and many, many more. But at our
meeting he was in a great state about the injusticehe
thought had been done to him. Mr. Legrand takes credit
as the inventor of the "crazy cubes." paper cubes that can

be flattened just by pushing on them and which pop out
again (by means of a rubber band) as a cube when you
take your hand off. But. Paul Strickland of Ragged Bears
(London) used the idea, copyrighted it and has published
two books with these crazy cubes: Paul Strickland s ABC
bouncy boxes and Paul Strickland's 123 bouncy boxes.

Nevertheless, LeGrand's firm also developed two
books, Crazy cubes: Leant to read and Crazy cubes:
Lear-n to count. But. more innovative and creative
seemed to us the idea of using these cubes for their
publication Pop-up puzzle. In that book the cubes are
designed as a variation of the old wooden
cubes.illustrated on all six sides with parts of pictures
(mostly fairy or farm) and resulting in six different
pictures once the corresponding sides of the cubes were
up! He also combined with that another old children's toy
the Jack-in-the-box since the "crazy cubes" plop out of
the box once opened.

Mr. Legrand had also a new series of five fairytale pop-
ups: Torn Thumb. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood.
The Beauty and the Beast, and Goldilocks in the same
format and design (a cover that opens to reveal one big
pop-up scene) as the series Universal Sales and
Marketing did last year. And. after the success of the
Becassine carousels last year, they have Babar carousels:
A day in the life of King Babar and Christmas night with
Babar.

Blaze International Productions Inc. has the finished
copy of Leonardo da Vinci by Jerome Corsi
(Pomegranate Artbooks) on display and There was a
crooked mart, a pop-up book shaped like a parallelogram
and illustrated by Kevin O'Malley. Only the dummies
could be seen of two promising titles, Angels and
Magical beasts and Clare your eyes by Noah Connon. an
innovation usmg those doll's eyes that open and close by
wiggling the book.

Hazar Publishing had a wonderful The magic show by
Richard Fowler and David Woos, showing the
"Levitating Elephant," the "Snake Charmer" and the
"Elastic Girl" and a host of other tricks and illusions.

Watts Books had the sequel to the best selling The most
amazing pop-up science book by Jay Young, a book that
will not win the prize for the most original title of the fair.
The even more amazing science pop-up book. It has a
working telephone, a gravity clock, scales, binoculars,
and an abacus. But there is no trace of the two sequels
they announced two years ago. The most amazing pop-up

computer book with a working computer and The most
amazing pop-up radio book with a working radio (paper,
of course). A pity for both books looked wonderful.

By the way. there really is an annual prize for the
funniest or most original book title. This year's winner
was the Hunt & Thorpe title The baby Jesus touch and
feel book. Other titles nominated for this Diagram Crroup
Prize for the Oddest title, the official name of the prize,
were A social and economic history of margarine:
Virtual reality: Exploring the bra: Amputee
management -A handbook: and Androgynous objects:
String bags in central New Guinea1.

In addition to the packagers, many "normal" publishing
houseshad op-up books. They are included here with no
attempt to describe them all. Along with the finished
copies of his first pop-up book Waiting for
Filippo,(Chiomc\e Books) Michael Bender showed
some artwork for a second title All the world's a stage.
an introduction to the world of Shakespeare. Brian
Wildsmith did a new pop-up book The creation for
Oxford University Press as beautiful as Noah 's ark
which he did last year.

Kveta Pacovaska's new book Flying (North South
Books) looks more like an artists' book .and was surely
one of the most beautiful productions at the fair.

National Geographic continued their series of action
books with Creepy crawly creatures and Undersea
adventure (the first title in the series not on animals).

Duncan Baird Publishers from London showed the first
finished copies of Christos Kondeatis' Pandora 's box
with a wonderful three-dimensional Trojan horse, but
with less papeT engineering than his two earlier books
based on the Bible.

For those loving books with inserts. Cartwheel has
Mommy 's briefcase by Alice Lour, Abbeville Press will
publish (translated from German) the sequel to Letters
from Felix by Annette Langen, Felix travels back in time.
Houghton Mifflin has Letters from Christmas by J.R.R.
Tolkien.

Jonathan Cape will bring out David Pelham's gimmick
The sensational samburger. a book shaped as a real 3-D
hamburger, a horror in your bookcase! Frederick Warne
has several new pop-ups and movables derived from the
books of Beatrix Potter and Cecily Man Baker, The
flower faeries pop-up theatre and the two carousels

Peter Rabbit and Tom Kitten. Breslich and Foss from
London offered a beautiful The secret garden pop-up
with four pop-up spreads to tie together as a carousel and
including a set of paper dolls from the beloved classic
children's book It will be published by Scholastic
Canada

Of the two Mexican publishers which offer pop-ups.
CIDCLI was not present at the fan although they were in
the catalog, and Pangea Editores published just one title
(Teotihuacan) from the series they announced last year
on the pre-Columbian civilizations.

Finally. Hunt & Thorpe from England had religious
pop-ups and movables in their catalog. A highly original
version of Noah's ark is Look for the rainbow by Linda
and Allan Parry, incorporating a peepshow looking out at
the rainbow which is constructed in multi-colored acetate
on the back cover of the book. They announced an
original pop-up book by the same couple, The amazing
pilgrim 's progress story. It will be the first time since the
early 19th century Harlequinades that John Bunyan's
story will be used for a movable

This is just a selection of all we saw at the Frankfurt
Book Fair 1995! It is a personal selection, our pick of
what we think will be collectible and of interest to readers
of Movable Stationery. We have omitted the simple,
fanfolded pop-ups published by Ottenheimer. Gran-
dreams, Grange Books. Peter Haddock. Crown. Derry-
dale, and others Believe us, they again had many, many
new items!

The next Frankfurt Book Fair will be from October 2-
7, 1996. Make plans to be there, but be prepared!

Catalogs Recently Received

Each of these catalogs includes
pop-up or movable books.

Aleph-Bet Books. Catalogue 49. 218 waters Edge,
Valley Cottage. New York 10989.

Books of the Ages. Supplemental Catalogue No. 8A. and
Catalogue 9. Gary Overmann. 4764 Silverwood Dr..
Batavia. Ohio 45103.

Harold Burstein & Company. "Early American
Juveniles" Catalogue 149. 36 Riverside Dr. Waltham.
MA. 02154.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES

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Robin Greer. Catalogue 98, Christmas 1995. 29 Oxberry
Ave., London, SW6 5SP. England.

Jo Ann Reisler, Ltd. "Fine Children's & Illustrated
Books: Early-winter miscellany 1995" and Catalogue 32.
360 Gryndon St., NE, Vienna, Va. 22180.

Unicorn Books. Catalogue 70 and "Pop-ups." Sheila
Feller. 56 Rowlands Ave.. Hatch End. Pinner. HA5 4BP.
England.

New Publications

The following titles have been identified from pre-
publication publicity, publisher's catalogs, or adver-
tising. All titles include pop-ups unless otherwise
identified. Titles reviewed in Robert Sabuda's "Movable
Reviews" column are not included in this list.

3-D lad. Roger Culbertson. designer and paper engineer.
Freeman. $19.95. 9 'A x 16 case from which attached 18
x 4 1 Vi 3-D poster folds out.
0-7167-6615-9.

Backyard cowboy: A pop-up book. By Barney Saltzberg.
Hyperion Books for Children. April. 12 pages. 6 x 8 14 .
$i 1.95. 0-7868-0204-9.

Ballet magic: A pop-up book. Cartwheel Books. April.
12 pages. 7x7. $12.95. 0-590-26242-4.

Caterpillar to butterfly. Cartwheel. March. 8 pages.
4x4. $4.95.0-590-54345-8.

Disney 's Beauty and the Beast: The true prince. A Tiny
Changing Pictures Book. Disney Press. March. 10 pages.
3 %x3 Va. $4.95. 0-7868-5754-4.

Disney's Pocahontas: The first meeting. A Tiny
Changing Pichires Book. Disnev Press. March. 10 pages.
3 74x3 %. $4.95. 0-7868-5754-4.

Easter babies. Little Simon Merchandise. 10 pages.

4x4. 0-689-80611-6. $4.50.

Also: Easter counting. 0-689-80612-4.

Easter egg count. 0-689-806 13-2.

Easter Sunday. 0-689-80614-0.

3 9088 01629 2740

The Galactic Empire: Ships of the Fleet. Little Brown.
April. 10 pages. $15.95. 0-316-53510-9.

Happy birthday 1-year-old. By Simone Abel. Dial.
March. 12 pages. 5 % x 5 %. $7^95. 0-8037-1921-3.
Also: Happy birthday 2-year-old. 0-8037- 1 922- 1 .
Happy birthday 3-year-old. 0-8037- 1 924-8.
Happy birthday 4-year-old. 0-8037-1925-6.

Monkey pop-ups. A book of colors. Cartwheel. April. 8
pages. 7 !4 x 7 /-.. $6.95. 0-590-54315-6.
Also: Monkey pop-ups. A book ofopposites.
0-590-54314-8.

Noodles. David Carter, illustrator and paper engineer.
Festival. May. 20 pages. 7 V2x 7 'A $15.95.
0-694-00842-7.

Parading with piglets: An ABC pop-up. By Biruta
Akerbergs-Hansen. National Geographic Society. March.
10 pages. 8 14x8'/:. $16.95.0-7922-2711-5."

The Rebel Alliance: Ships of the Fleet. Little Brown.
April. 10 pages. $15.95. 0-316-53509-5.

Richard Scarry's pop-up colors. Little Simon. April.
10 pages. 0-689-80330-3.

Richard Scajry's pop-up numbers. Little Simon. April.
$8.99.0-689-80331-1.

Robert Crowther's pop-up Olympics. Candlewick Press.

April. 12 pages. 8 !4x 10. $19.95.

1-56402-801-1.

Sophie 's dance class: A pull-the-tab book. By Ruth
Tilden. Hyperion. March. 10 pages. 6x6 14. $9.95.
0-7868-2733-5.

Tadpole to frog. Cartwheel. March. 8 pages. 4x4.
$4.95. 0-590-54346-6.

Walt Disney's 101 dalmalions pop-up book. Disnev
Press. April. 12 pages. 8 x 10. $12.95. 0-7868-3093-x.

The wide-mouthed frog. By Keith Faulkner. Dial. March.
16 pages. 10x10. $10.95.0-8037-1875-6.

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